The lawyer hired by Ghislaine Maxwell ahead of her trial on child grooming charges previously defended one of Osama Bin Laden’s henchmen.
Attorney Bobbi Sternheim has been retained by the former girlfriend of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein who faces court next year on charges of grooming and abusing three girls under the age of 18.
The New York “super lawyer” has previously defended gang bosses and Mafia killers, but her most high-profile client was Khaled al-Fawwaz, a lieutenant of the al-Qaeda chief.
Al-Fawwaz was jailed for life in 2015 after being convicted of conspiracy for his role in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
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